Geologists know the climate changes but sadly it seems politicians and the press are more willing to trust the results of incomplete computer models. Climate models are useful but while they are in an early stage of development its best to take a skeptical view of their output.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Seems reasonable to ask the question

From the cutting room floor at the Sydney Morning Herald...

Dear Editor,Daniel Bray (Climate change is real. Let's deal with it, 3/3) asks the question: Given the long-standing scientific consensus, why is climate change an unreasoning issue? Perhaps the fact that the observed warming trend (0.1 degrees Celsius per decade) is well below IPCC projections that range up to 0.6 degrees per decade has something to do with it? As current trends clearly falsify the doomsday projections of catastrophic warming derived from the climate models, it is not at all unreasonable to ask what all the fuss is about.